Victim's father says that the notice had been put up in September, around a month after she went missing in Pakistan. DESIGN: SIDRAH MOIZ KHAN/FILE
A police investigation team set up by the capital city police officer (CCPO) has visited Khanpur Canal to look for the missing Canadian Sikh Rajvindar Kaur Gill, who is believed to have been murdered.
A suspect in police custody, Hafiz Shehzad Hussain, has confessed to involvement in the killing and told police that the victim’s body had been dumped in Khanpur Canal off Sheikhupura Road.
A police official said that Hussain had confessed to taking Rs50,000 from the main suspect, Shahid Ghazanfar, a German national of Pakistani origin who is believed to have fled to Germany after the murder.
He said that Hussain had also handed a mobile phone to the police that Ghazanfar had been using. Ghazanfar had known Gill for several years and was known to her as Krishna Roy.
Sikandar Singh Gill, the victim’s father, said that he was relying on the courts to find his daughter, dead or alive. He said that he had moved pillar to post seeking help to find his missing daughter since August.
It was only when the courts took up the matter in December that there had been any progress in the case, he said.
The CCPO told the Lahore High Court on Wednesday that the police had contacted Interpol for the arrest of Ghazanfar in Germany. Interpol has put up a notice on its website seeking information on Rajvindar Gill. Her father said that the notice had been put up in September, around a month after she went missing in Pakistan.
The notices include pictures of the Sikh woman and a distinctive ring she wore. The details can be viewed at https://secure.interpol.int/public/Data/Children/Missing/Notices/Data/2012/14/2012_331714.asp#
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2013.
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